We
help you help others through online fundraising. Our mission
is
to help you engage with people who care about your cause, to learn who
they are, and to communicate the areas in which they can help with that
cause. As a
rule, forming relationships with donors in the real world and online
have the same
thing in common: getting to know donors better serves everyone
better." CHARITeZ helps you foster your relationships.

CHARITeZ started in 2003 with Gregory Olsen, Software Architect
and former CEO of Ameriserv.net, thanks to a local pet
shelter in
Cleveland, Ohio. Greg started working
with Susan Ross, Executive Director of the APL (Animal Protective
League) in Tremont, Ohio.
Greg’s love for Great Danes fostered a relationship with the
Susan. Many hours were spent listening to
Susan’s needs of placing over 14,000 strays per year. Our
first objective was to get all the dogs
and cats online with a searchable database that would be easy to
administer by adding or deleting the current pet inventory. In its
first year, we had made a very successful means of adopting out 10%,
totaling 1,400 strays!

Phase
II was implemented to create a means to gather and organize all the
email traffic
that came pouring in on a daily basis. Greg suggested that we work with
the objective of
creating a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) based module that
would allow donors to sign up for
email, volunteer to work, and create living wills, and allow the
organization to find volunteers to help
walk and staff the APL Events. At the time, Ameriserv.net was working
on several .NET Applications and suggested we use the APL as a beta
testing organization for CHARITeZ. In its first 3 months,
we received over $14,000 in donations and signed up over 4,000
subscribers.
As Susan and Greg worked together, we added several other modules to
CHARITeZ, including:

Donation
Tracking

One-Click
Donations

Annual
Pledging

Document
Attachments

Working
with several other Foundations including the Catholic Diocese, The City
Mission and some smaller “under $400K” foundations,
Greg had many hours of feedback that he used to develop the most
comprehensive fundraising Application in the State of Ohio.
In its first year, Ameriserv.net sold over $100K in eZ Applications.

In
2011, Greg moved to Sarasota, Florida, and created a new company to
hold
his CHARITeZ Application and focus on helping the many foundations in
the area.